Mendel90 Marlin
For those looking to run a recent version of Marlin on a Mendel90 from nophead, I track upstream in my own branches on GitHub. There are two versions; one f...
Projects
3D Printing Tips
Just a few things I’ve learned over the past few weeks: Travel rate matters - On both my Prusa I3 and Mendel90 I had the non-print travel rate ratched up t...
Mendel90 Build
(My name is Matt S., and I’m a practicing 3D printing addict)
Maker Farm Prusa I3 Build
After doing the Wake Robotics build, we got the 3D printer bug pretty bad so I ended up looking for a reasonably priced DIY kit and decided to buy a Maker Fa...
OctoPrint Win
Just to follow up my previous post, my Raspberry Pi OctoPrint setup worked entirely as advertised. I expected tweaks and problems, but the stack Just Worked...
Wi-Fi 3D Printer Prep
With the successful completion of the 3D printer build and the upcoming delivery of our new 3D printer kit, I wanted to find a way to be able to print withou...
Playing with the Odroid-U2
Picked up one of Hardkernel’s Odroid-U2 dev boxes, figured a quad-core arm box for less than $100 shipped was worth kicking around a bit. After a week-ish o...
Moar XBMC Awesome
Been playing around a bit more with XBMC and came across a few noteworthy add-ons I thought worth sharing.
Moar automation
Got a few more bits added this weekend:
Initial Automation Success
Got my various HA bits in this morning, was able to get the Vera Lite controller set up (dead easy) with my lamp plug and dimmer switch. All paired without i...
Home automation experiment begins
Got a few bits on the way to start this little experiment in HA off:
Fun with TomatoUSB and OpenBSD
With family visiting and a steady stream of folks around the house needing Wifi access, I decided it was about time to finally set up a properly segregated g...
Geeky weekend projects
Had some time on my hands this weekend, so decided to get a few small projects worked out.
Android Repo Mirroring
Been playing with the CyanogenMod port during pto this week (yummy gingerbread goodness!) and got a crash course in building Android from scratch. Due to th...
rssnewzbin updates
I committed some prototype db code for rssnewzbin last night. It’s not hooked into anything at the moment (and it’s just a pickle dump), but it’s a start. ...
Fedora n Mythtv n Hellanzb oh my!
I’ve been running Gentoo on it for forever, but lately I’ve grown tired of dealing with the weekly tree breakage and hassles. I also wanted to attempt a 64 ...
Trac fixed
Seems my .htaccess file was borked taking my trac install effectively offline. It’s fixed now for the three people that actually care… :)
New Hosting
Well I moved hosting… Again… VPSLand is a decent VPS hosting option, but I was having issues with poor disk I/O performance and the plan just wasn’t cutting...
Updated Gaim Edgy packages
I upgraded the Gaim packages in my Edgy repo to the latest (beta 4) release today. Because I stupidly didn’t sync with the upstream Ubuntu packages, you’ll ...
Subversion hooks
Spent some time working with Subversion hooks last night to test svnsync and discovered something. If you wanna run sudo in a hook (don’t ask), make sure yo...
FIPS validation yanked
Fresh on the heels of the OTD win comes news that some really big players in the encryption field have killed the Openssl FIPS-140 certification. Those play...
Hosting followup
Just a note for those considering VPS hosting, I hit my one month anniversary with VPSLand and couldn’t be happier. I had an issue within the first week wit...
Package updates
I’ve added a few more packages to my dapper repo and updated a few others. I added an updated nautilus-sendto deb (with Gajim goodness), plus a few other mi...
Updates, Ubuntu packages
Updated the python-shoutcast tarball to fix an issue with the DEBUG variable. Go grab it now… All the cool kids are doing it… ;)
New py_shoutcast, Freevo plugin
Finally got around to updating py_shoutcast to the new Shoutcast XML format/layout. This was actually reported to me back at the end of May by Mats Joensson...
SVK
Came across SVK while looking for a way to mirror my subversion repos between this new server and my home network. According to their site, SVK “supports re...
New host
Finally got setup on a proper hosting service I think I’ll be able to live with for a while. My requirements never seemed all that exotic, but I couldn’t ev...
Could it be?
The Gentoo dev community is finally starting to reconsider the leadership (or lack thereof) structure that’s killing it?
Transparent proxy
I’ve been wanting to setup a transparent proxy on my home network, but haven’t been able to because Squid isn’t running on my router. All the hacks I’d been...
Equery magic
While looking to modular-x-ify the new Metacity ebuild, I needed a way to verify the X deps and used this:
OpenSSL Receives FIPS 140-2 Validation
Haven’t blogged in a while, too much going on, this seemed important enough tho…
New python-shoutcast
Thanks to a slick patch from Stefan Bambach (link), there’s one less bug and HTTP 302 redirection support.
Gentoo Linux LiveUSB HOWTO
Must-have for any true Gentoo’r ;)
GNOME 2.13.3 in BMG
I think I’ve gotten all of Gnome 2.13.3 in BMG… Lotsa new fun like Beagle search in Nautilus and Yelp, OpenGL support in vte and more stuff I can’t think of...
New Gnome and Nautilus
On my way to getting the new Gnome beta release in bmg, but I had to go ahead and cheer a bit for the new Beagle-based search in Nautilus (screenies). Soooo...
Genesi – Home Media Center
I’ll take two!
Leopard ideas
Meethune and I have been kicking around ideas for breathing new life into Leopard. When I was approached to work on the project the goal was twofold; a chro...
LVM2 magic
Quick n dirty hard drive replacement using lvm2: pvcreate /dev/md10 && vgextend lvm /dev/md10 && pvmove /dev/hdc2 /dev/md10 && vgredu...
Portage Patches
Brian Harring (ferringb) has some really slick patches posted on his blog for some serious speedups in Portage.
Gnome 2.13.1
For those living under a rock, Gnome 2.13.1 has been released and I’m working on getting it into the BMG overlay. So far I haven’t noticed any real breakag...
Ouch!
There’s more than a little truth here… How unfortunate.
New Freevo Shoutcast Plugin
Thanks to the spot-on cleanup/enhancement work done by Dan, I’m quite happy to put up a new tarball of the Freevo Shoutcast plugin. He details his changes i...
More Desktop Automation
This looks like yet another candidate… Great stuff!
Automating deskop app testing
Might have to look at this one for the Open-Xchange/OpenGroupware testing we are doing… Looks like fun! ;)
FUD
I know it’s no longer my primary concern, but it still amazes me to see the FUD coming from a few Gentoo devs about BreakMyGentoo. After all the work Joem a...
BreakMyGentoo
Well, ownership of BreakMyGentoo has officially been turned over to Lars Strojny (mastaYoda) and he’s certainly taken off with it. I’ll prolly still be invo...
New Python-Shoutcast
I’ve uploaded a new version of my python-shoutcast module to fix the feed url. Thanks to Dan for pointing out the issue.
Gnome Beta 1
I’ve just installed the new Gnome beta release (overview, announcement) and am thrilled with the feature improvements so far. I know it’s a beta release, bu...
Rapido – Visual profiler
Rapido - Visual profiler
OpenVPN GUI’s
Discovered tonight that OpenVPN now has choices for GUI’s! For those that might not now, OpenVPN is a true cross-platform GPL-2 (mostly) VPN client-server p...
Flow, Stuckness, and Interruptions
Recycled Knowledge: Flow, Stuckness, and Interruptions “Programming work is not very much like digging ditches (the work for which project-management techniq...
More BMG/BMU domination
I’ve been moving some of my desktop machines over to Ubuntu the past few days and was looking for info on the Ubuntu Backports project, so I Googled for Brea...
G12 Status Report
Important Gnome Foundation announcement! This will change the Gnome world as we know it.
Tags/Keywords Revisited
I’ve just made the switch away from Bunny’s Technorati Tags to Jerome’s Keywords since it means much greater flexibility. Just click on any of the ‘Tagged a...
RAID in Linux
I’ve had a few different folks asking me about the various approaches for setting up software RAID arrays in Linux, so I figured it would be a good time to ...
Referrer Karma
Added Referrer Karma to my anti-spam arsenal as well as the stats plugin so everyone can see what’s getting blocked… Here’s hoping it helps squeeze out thos...
BreakMyUbuntu
Came across this while digging for info bout the gaim packages in Ubuntu tonight. Just slightly suprising to see that BreakMyGentoo has had an impact on a c...
All valid
Sat up last night with the W3C Validator and got the XHTML produced from this theme all fixed. I also ran the style sheet thru and it passed as well, so you...
New logo
Well, I finally decided on a what is (IMHO) a really cool logo for the site. I modified an excentral triangle (using The Gimp), added a bit of color and voi...
Gentoo toolchain tip
Came across the following suggestion for the best way of handling updates for your base Gentoo toolchain to maximize your system’s stability. For those that...
Useful Plugins
I’ve been trying out several plugins and figured a little summary of the ones I’ve found useful was in order.
BAStats plugin
Just installed the BAStats plugin, looking forward to seeing what kinda output it produces… Seems the 1.5 WP release has really brought everyone out.
Feed burner
Came across FeedBurner just a bit ago and “burned” the feed from here. I’ve updated the link on the site here for it and found a great guide for redirecting...
Name change
I’ve modified this template a bit and decided on a real name for my little part of the net: excentral. Meaning ‘Out of the center’, it’s a dead-on descripti...
Templatage
I’ve changed back to the Bionic Jive template and added a few plugins to WP here including WP-CC and TechnoratiTags. I haven’t had the chance to configure t...
Upgraded WordPress
Got this blog all updated with the new 1.5 version, had no issues… For those that wanna do the same, there’s a nice walk-thru on the wiki.
IPython
I discovered IPython this weekend and have been really pleasantly suprised. It’s got a quite extensive feature list and while I prolly won’t use most of thi...
Python Shoutcast and Freevo
Well, I finally got off my ass, fixed the last few issues with my Shoutcast feed module and got it packaged up. I also updated the Freevo plugin to match th...
WordPress Plugin: AuthImage
This is great! Installed the MT equivalent on BMG and it’s cut out all my blog spam there, so I installed this on on the SPG site… Kudos to the authors.
NetworkManager patch merged
Nothing like a nice one-line patch… ;)
Evo Screenies
Got the new development version of Evolution in the BMG tree today, so I figured I might as well post some of the changes I’ve found so far…
BreakMyGentoo.net: Gnome 2.9.2
BreakMyGentoo.net: Gnome 2.9.2
djbdns
Made the move from Bind to djbdns tonight and can’t really see myself going back. Hostname lookups are faster, zone data file format actually makes sense, a...
It’s been a long time waiting – Bryan Forbes
Congrats on the Coaster release Bryan! I’ll see if I can’t get some ebuilds up on the site to help out on the “testing”… ;)
PMF Doldrums
Having a hell of a time actually getting any work done on PMF right now and I have no idea why. It’s a bit of a project true, but I’ve done bigger and not h...
Nicer Titles
Added this css/js combination to get some really slick mouseovers on links…
Updated look…
I’ve finally found a good base template to work from. It’s called Headspace and it’s based on the excellent Kubrick template. There’s quite a bit I want to...
sophists philosophy forums,psychology news,discussion – Running a Successful Open Source Project
Great article re: project management…
Shoutcast Feeds
I’ve done a small script to parse the xml feed from Shoutcast.com . I’ll be using this as the base for a new and improved (hopefully) ‘Web Radio’ plugin for...
Mantis
Found a new bug tracking software that looks really interesting… Might just be able to replace Bugzilla on the BMG site… :D
DNS-SD and GnomeVFS
The new (2.7.2) version of GnomeVFS has added support for DNS Service Discovery for automagical discovery of WebDAV and FTP servers. I’d never heard of this...
WordPress 1.2 Out!
The new version is out… Lotsa new goodies listed here. My upgrade took all of 3 minutes including the download time… MT is history!
Not Dead… Really
Man… It’s been quite a while since my last post here and a lot has changed.
Z39.50, Relax-ng, Web Services and Leopard
Back in the saddle again with Leopard now that all the USM/Newport stuff is stablized… I finally got the task list done for the module/package management en...
Ebuilds for Freedesktop’s X Server
I know I’m a little behind the curve here, but there are ebuilds out there for the new xserver. I’m emerging em now and will be posting screenies and though...
Gnome 2.5.0 is out!
Yay! Better late than never I suppose… ;)
Leopard Officially Unleashed!
We finally got the leopard press release done and out the door… HTML version, PDF version.
Mozilla and Z39.50
This is too cool… The Mozilla folks are looking into an implementation of the Z39.50 protocol to use with RDF feeds for searching.
BreakMyGentoo Status
For all the BreakMyGentoo devotees I’d like to apologize for the complete lack of attention the site’s been getting as of late. Leopard’s pretty much just sq...
Leopard 1.0 Out The Door!
Yup… Finally got the beast uploaded to the site late Wednesday night. Why the delay posting it here you ask? The answer is twofold actually. To start, I ...
Openoffice revisited
Got my oo-ximian binaries all compiled and running right along. Gotta say, this version is very sweet indeed. The added Gnome integration is nice to work w...
New fun stuff
Openoffice 1.1.0 has been released, the Ximian-ized source ebuilds are already on the forums (which are compiling quite happily) and I’ll prolly get em poste...
Week till release…
Yup… One week from today we will be releasing the core Leopard environment. I hope. I’m not really worried about making the deadline, but I gotta say this ...
Gaim updated… Jabber rules all
The Gaim folks got Yah** working and have release 0.70. From the announcement it looks like this is gonna be a moving target so god only knows how long it w...
FYI
Tom Adelstein (heading up the Leopard project) has an interesting interview titled “Linux from the trenches: A frank analysis of Linux as it moves toward cri...